On day three of QCon London, we were treated to some really insightful stories from the likes of Google, Atlas and Spotify. And for the first time in a while Uber is talking publically about what they’ve been up to. The challenge for Uber’s platform is that both supply (Uber drivers) and demand (riders) …
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Day three of QCon London was a treat, with full day tracks on architecture and microservices, it presented some nice challenges of what to see during the day. My favourite talk of the day was Randy Shoup’s Service Architectures at Scale, Lessons from Google and eBay. Randy kicked off the session by identifying a …
From the first day of QCon London, I really enjoyed Kevlin Henney’s Small is Beautiful talk. Titled after E.F. Schumacher’s book (below) of the same name, the title itself should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect from this talk. I’m a big fan of Kevlin, and his “Seven Ineffective Coding …
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The first day of this year’s QCon London is over, and it’s been a thoroughly enjoyable day of talks. Most of the talks are on softer, more philosophical topics, which is a nice change of pace from last week’s LambdaDays. One of my favourite talks from today was Adam Tornhill’s Code as Crime Scene and …
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Hello, it’s been a while since I last wrote, work has kept me busy for a while – we’re making some interesting changes and experimenting with Docker again, so fun fun fun! Anyhow, I thought I drop you a note to tell you about some of the cool conference that are happening around Europe in …
As 2015 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look back at what I got up to in 2014. I went to a few conferences and gave some talks: Modelling game economy with Neo4j at CodeMesh 14 My adventure with Elm at NDC London 14 Learn you to tame complex APIs with F# powered DSLs …
2014 has been a good year, and it ended with a bang! With so many great talks to choose from, here are my top 10 most memorable talks I have attended/watched this year (not in any particular order since they have all taught me something different). Kevlin Henney – Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of …
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2014 project. Check out all the other great posts there! Special thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing this. A good coding habit is an incredibly powerful tool, it allows us to make good decisions with minimal cognitive effort and can be the difference between …
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Modelling game economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui
Some time ago, Microsoft announced Orleans, an implementation of the actor model in .Net which is designed for the cloud environment where instances are ephemeral. We’re currently working on a number of projects in Erlang and have run into some assumptions in distributed Erlang which doesn’t hold true in a cloud-hosted environment where nodes are …
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